The Arizona sentinel., 1887-09-03
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

Policemen in. Constantinople re- ceive only six dollars month for their services,
 The Celtic language is spoken by 940 900 people in Ireland, 64,000 of whom can speak no other
 The favorite pin and brooch of the Parisian woman is ornamented with one or several dogs heads.
 Since the accident in the Theater Comique, the provincial theaters in France have had only empty galleries.
 A club has been started in Berlin which has among its rules one which provides that no one shall be eligible to membership unless he can converse fluently in at least one foreign lan- guage.
 The title of baron was formerly the only one in the English language; now it is the lowest. Its original name was ''vavasour," but the Saxons changed it to "thane," and finally the Normans gave it its present appella- ton.
 The cost of the British medical army staffis f240, 900 a year, but, in addition, there is an item of e200. GOO a year for pensions to retired doctors and surgeons. The medical officers retire from the service at forty five years of age, and receive pensions for the remainder of their days
 The government of Italy is about to undertake excavations on the site of the ancient city Sybaris, so famous for its luxury and splendor. Sybaris was buried under the mud brought down by an inundation nearly twenty four hundred years ago, but it is be- lieved that the ruins will be found well preserved. d.-M r Ledger.
 The British tel egraph service, which is part of the post-office, does not pay expenses since the rate was reduced to sixpence per message, or about 12 cents. The deficit for the past year was e223, 900 on working expenses and s326, 900 for interest on the working capital-in all e55O, 900, or S2, 75O.OOO
 The grosshopper plague is giving serious trouble in Algeria this year. The efforts made to destroy the eggs have proved useless. In one district 50, 900 gallons have been collected and burned. This represents the destruc- ton of 7, 25O, 900, 900 insects. Nature
 Well may the people of France stand aghast at the financial problem they are called upon to solve. On the 1st of January, 1880, the public debt of France amounted to S6. 200, 900, 900, on the 1st of February, 1887, it reached S7524, 100000. Thus in seven years the debt has swelled to the tune of $1, 324, ,000,0 - an increase of such fearful proportions as to justly create alarm for the solvency of France Public Opinion.
 A jubilee" river is the latest dis covery in New Guinea, where an Aus tralian expedition in the Victory has been making some valuable explora- tions. The Victory found two large streams-the Douglas" reached by the so-called 'Aird river," which is only one of the mouths of the vast Douglas, and a still wider further east, which the expedition duly christened Jubilee" in honor of the Queen. Both rivers were explored for fully one hundred miles, and five new tribes were ound.-SpringfeId Times.
 The total number of persons killed by wild animals and venomous snakes in the ten divisions of Bengal during the official year 1SS5-S6 was the high est in the last five years, and amount ed to II, S23. As is usual, nine-tenths of these deaths were caused by snakes. But of 12,223 buffaloes, oxen, horses and ponies destroyed in this manner, only 311 were killed by snakes. These annual returns do not take account of sheep, goats, pigs and monkeys, the destruction of which is very large The hyena is credited with the destruction of T73 head Of cattle -R ROefo7a R9td0et